Over my years serving as the music leader for PHBC, I have had many opportunities to speak benedictions over all of you. A benediction is simply a blessing uttered or bestowed at the end of a service. The benedictions at the end of our services are always a verse or two from Scripture. Allow me to offer one from my heart here. I offer two praises and one encouragement. I praise God and am thankful eternally for the way you sing. Preston Highlands is a precious and wonderful place [...]

In 1942, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, C. S. Lewis, published The Screwtape Letters. The book was a fictional correspondence between a senior demon, Screwtape, and his nephew junior demon, Wormwood. Screwtape advises Wormwood on all sorts of ways to tempt and torment his subject, ultimately attempting to draw his subject to reject Christ. As an exercise this semester, my small group at Dallas Theological Seminary had us write our own Screwtape letters. How would Screwtape advise Wormwood to tempt us if that was Wormwood’s [...]